Sully also compares and contrasts Hagel and Kristol on Iraq. By the way, I just love the way Kristol just…opines conclusively, as if he knows something, that Saddam has lost his support among Iraqi Sunnis. Oh, the blather, the blather!

One question for Andrew, though: When you go behind the paywall, will I still be able to link to you?

You're safe on linking. Unsafe on answering the real question... is there not a credible Democrat for this job, with anti-war views, available for the job? When I ask that question I get the very weak "it doesn't matter that they have a D after their name," reply. It does matter, though. I voted for a Democratic president to pursue that party's goals. Hagel is right on Israel and Iran. But there's more to the world than that.

Give this much power to a Republican and you;ll get a republican result. It's simple.

"Sarah Palin’s fantasy America–is a different place now, changing for the
worse, overrun by furriners of all sorts: Latinos, South Asians, East
Asians, homosexuals…to say nothing of liberated, uppity blacks.... Finally, I should say that the things that scare the teabaggers–the
renewed sense of public purpose and government activism, the burgeoning
racial diversity, urbanity and cosmopolitanism–are among the things I
find most precious and exhilarating about this country."

Mark Steyn took on the bloviator of this blather in "After America": "Joe Klein finds 'the burgeoning racial diversity, urbanity and cosmopolitanism' of American so "exhilarating' that he lives in Pelham, New York, which is 87.33 percent white. By contrast, Sarah Palin's racist xenophobic hick town of Wasilla, Alaska, is 85.46 percent white."

As far as "teabaggers," I'll repeat my observation that that term is used by unattractive women and effeminate men. Joe Klein is no exception to this observation.